Let the little things go

“Don’t let other people’s sh-t get to you,” says my very wise male housie, when we discuss that there will be none of the “no parking on the driveway” rule when our female housie leaves us in 6 weeks.

He’s also the one who said after knowing me for all of about 2 weeks, “Geez, B-! You’re like a duck on a lake. Little legs kicking furiously underneath the water while all remains calm on the surface.”

I suspect he’s smarter than you’d think upon first glance – I need to start paying more attention methinks. It is mostly other people’s garbage (the little things, like the frowning and the stomping because we’re simply there) I take on board that ends up getting me down!!

Sometimes things tick me off and I feel like I get into a kinda “thought loop” where I keep thinking the same things over and over again.

I am pretty good at letting all those little things go nowadays but still have not achieved mastery of this goal…

but it’s really hard. I just need to breathe. Let it all go.

I think I’m going to have to start rating things when I feel myself getting annoyed. Giving them a mark out of 10 and it’s an annoyance below a certain point, I’ll decide, calmly and logically, that it’s not worth getting worked up over.

Breathe. Let it all go.

So much rage lately. I am one angry young woman.